Necktie-holder



" E. J. HAMILTON.

NECKTIE cum. APPLICATION FILED JULY 15' 1918.

Patented M1-.2,1920.

WITNESSES A TTORNEYS EDWARD JOSEPH HAMILTON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

NEGKTIE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Extent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

Application filed July 15, 1918. Serial No. 244,967.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J OSEPH HAM- ILTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in neck tie holders, and has for its object to provide a device of the character specified for use with turn-down collars, wherein a support is provided upon which a four-in-hand or other tie may be tied, and which may be removed from the tie after the tie has been formed, the said support being adapted to fit between the folds of a collar with the tie at the opening at the front of the collar, the said support having means for engaging a collar button to prevent displacement of the tie and support laterally.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the support in use;

Fig. 2 is a frontview of the support detached;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, with the tie removed;

Fig. 4 is a similar section with the tie in place.

The present embodiment of the invention is shown in connection with a tie 1 of the four-in-hand type, and with a collar of the turn-down type, the said collar having inner and outer folds 2 and 3, respectively. The collar is adapted to engage the usual button 4 at the front thereof, and the improvement comprises a support consisting of an upper arm 5 and a lower arm 6, the said arms being connected at one end by a cross bar 7 and being substantially parallel and spaced apart as shown.

At approximately the center of the upper arm 5 of the support there is provided a notch 8 on the upper edge of the said arm, the said notch having a length sufiicient to receive the overfold of the tie 1, to prevent sllpplng of the tie longitudinally of the support. Just below this notch 8 the arm 6 has a pair of depending "arms 9, and the said arms engage a collar button, as shown 1n Figs. 1 and 4, depending upon opposite sides of'the button. I

Referring to Fig. 1 it will be noted that the support as a whole has a width such that When the arms 9 are engaged with the collar button the overfold of the tie 1 will be in proper position at the opening between the ends of the fold 3 of the collar. This overfold rests in the notch 8, and holds the tie in the properpo'sition with respect'to the collar. The support is of such length that it'will extend on each side of the collar button a sufficient distance to steady the support.

In use, the tie may be tied upon the sup port and when the support is removed the tie is removed therewith. The tie may be easily removed from the support merely by slipping it toward the separated ends of the arms 5 and 6, or it may be engaged with the support in the same manner.

I claim:

A device of the character specified comprising a support for a tie consisting of a pair of approximately parallel vertically spaced arms connected at one end and free at the other to permit the removal of the tie from the support by sliding it toward the free ends of the arms, one of the arms having at approximately its center and on its upper edge a recess or cut away portion of a length to receive the width of the tie, the other arm having at approximately its center a pair of laterally spaced lugs for engaging a collar button.

EDWARD JOSEPH HAMILTON.

Witnesses:

AUGUSTINE J. PETRANEK,

MARGARET HAMILTON. 

